Question

I have posted a video explaining my problem.
Sorry for the slow frame rate.

When I shrink the window too fast, the Masonry jQuery plugin seems to be too slow to keep up and therefore breaks the layout when the browser is resized too quickly. Some of the items fall below the footer, and it looks obviously wrong.

When I reload the page, as seen in the video, the layout returns to normal.

I think it is a problem is smartresize

Here is the demo page:
http://test.davewhitley.com/not-wp/isotope_test/index.php

This page successfully does it:
http://tympanus.net/codrops/collective/collective-2/

the javascript:

jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
var CollManag = (function() {
    var $ctCollContainer = $('#ct-coll-container'),
    collCnt = 1,
    init = function() {
        changeColCnt();
        initEvents();
        initPlugins();
    },
    changeColCnt = function() {
        var w_w = $(window).width();
        if( w_w <= 600 ) n = 2;
        else if( w_w <= 768 ) n = 3;
        else n = 4;
    },
    initEvents = function() {
        $(window).on( 'smartresize.CollManag', function( event ) {
            changeColCnt();
        });
    },
    initPlugins = function() {
        $ctCollContainer.imagesLoaded( function(){
            $ctCollContainer.masonry({
                itemSelector : '.ct-coll-item',
                columnWidth : function( containerWidth ) {
                    return containerWidth / n;
                },
                isAnimated : true,
                animationOptions: {
                    duration: 300
                }
            });
        });
        $ctCollContainer.colladjust();
        $ctCollContainer.find('div.ct-coll-item-multi').collslider();
    };
    return { init: init };
})();
CollManag.init();
});

Answer 1

Great work by the way.

At certain points, yes, the layout goes a little crazy. Surely this is just down to the way browsers handle percentage widths + masonry. Great little tip below:

Make your container smaller, but your images larger.

.mycontainer { width: 24%; )
.mycontainer img { width: 101%; height: auto; )

http://metafizzy.co/blog/beyonce-seamless-fluid-image-masonry/